Yup. Unless you can fix the system that defines the incentives around recruitment and performance nothing will actually change. It’s tempting to think that “replace the system with a bold leader who … (View Post)

To be fair the CS, generations of politicians have encouraged them in this by setting up the bureaucracies that employ all those civil servants that do important things like ensure that a nuclear rea… (View Post)

It seems that ILBC can be picked up by an MRI scan but typically not by a mammogram: Sadly being first detected at stage 4 is very common, both here & in the USA. There was a Parliamentary debate… (View Post)

Oh, likewise: I could give you a laundry list of bad policies that Labour have entered into. But the question, as ever, is twofold: 1) what are the alternatives? (right now the alternatives seem to m… (View Post)

I am increasingly of the opinion that Labour are the only real choice available if you care about the economic future of the UK, despite their manifest and obvious flaws. What are the other options? … (View Post)